Though we cannot be certain on this point, there could be a connection to the Lord’s use of the pair of fleecings. As Younger notes, “it should be observed that just as Yahweh uses the pair of fleecings with their pagan divinatory overtones to encourage Gideon to deliver Israel, he will also use two Midianites—one relating his dream, the other interpreting it (also with pagan divinatory overtones)—to encourage and motivate Gideon to action.”1
13 When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”